Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome, the family of Tenor Beniamino Gigli (who admired the way Mussolini bossed Italy) got anonymous threats by phone and mail. Tenor Gigli, who recently testified in court against some Roman gangsters, is now singing in Switzerland. When he gets home, the threats said, he will be knocked...
When Hitler came to power in 1933, a German Dominican named Father Leonard Roth quietly began to oppose him. Within two years, the Gestapo was making it so hot for Father Roth that he fled to Switzerland. In 1943, he slipped back into Germany to carry on his undercover fight against the Nazis. Almost before he knew it, he had landed in the Reich's most notorious concentration camp-Dachau. There he saw a guard beat two of his fellow priests to death...
...boldest plot-that-failed has been reported, but never as fully as in Germany's Underground. Its preliminaries, principals and political aims are now described by Manhattan Lawyer Allen W. Dulles (younger brother of State Department Adviser John Foster Dulles), who was the wartime OSS chief in Switzerland. Obviously Dulles thought the assassination plot of great importance; the OSS in Switzerland had learned of it through "secret channels" long before it came off, repeatedly advised Washington of its importance. But Allied headquarters dismissed the plot as trifling and, says Dulles, "the plotters received no encouragement from the West...
...anonymous love letters. Scotland Yard tried to force him out of Britain in 1922, but the Count wouldn't force. He just went on writing, but now signed his name. When he wrote his will, he left Lady Diana everything he had in two banks in England and Switzerland, where he died. It added up to more than $100,000. But the Count was still being defeated. "I have been assured," said Lady Diana last week, "that because of ... claims on the estate I would receive nothing...
...occupation. The Norwegian Legation in Washington had refused to approve her return, but she went anyway, using her Norwegian passport, and traveling by way of Portugal, Spain and Berlin. She had never sung for the Germans, nor for the quislings. Her only wartime concerts were in neutral Sweden and Switzerland. Her husband died last year in a hospital while awaiting trial for collaboration. The Norwegian Government had no legal charges against her, and coldly gave her a passport. Norwegians felt a decided chill toward their great singer, who during the occupation had chosen to enjoy a comfortable life in their...